Little Women (Large Print Edition) by Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

Presenting the Large Print edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Also available from Golding Books is The Essential Louisa May Alcott, featuring Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys. This collection is part of Golding Books' Essential Series.
The story of Little Women is loosely based on that of Alcott and her three sisters. Characteristics of Meg, Beth, and Amy can each be found respectively in Anna, Lizzie, and May Alcott, and similarly Jo was based on Louisa May Alcott herself.
Alcott wrote various other novels, including several under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard (and one anonymously), and also a number of short story collections for children, but none of these reached the levels of popularity or finally the longevity of Little Women and its sequels.
Alcott wanted to inspire the readers of her time to view new kinds of freedom in womanhood, and even though many characters are forced or choose to conform to the traditional role of woman in the home, her writings share ideas of individuality and natural ambition that influenced many girls and women then and that still have great relevance today in families and societies that seek to stifle uniqueness and impose a general conformity.
Unique among large print books for children (including large print childrens books for visually impaired readers) and large print inspirational books for readers of all ages, this large print edition in paperback is an unforgettable and moving addition to every library.
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Taught by her father, educator and writer Amos Bronson Alcott, she also studied informally with family friends such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Parker. Alcott worked chiefly as a domestic servant and teacher from 1850 to 1862 in Boston and Concord to support her family; an abolitionist and feminist, she worked as a nurse in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. Writing in various forms under pseudonyms since adulthood, the bestselling status of Little Women (1868-9) granted Alcott financial independence and popular acclaim. She wrote several more novels, with Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886) following on from Little Women, and others including An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Work: A Story of Experience (1873), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880). After suffering poor health in later life, Alcott died of a stroke caused by a likely autoimmune disease (such as lupus) in 1888.